[kstrauser]

I agree. I don't do frontend stuff, but I sit next to the team that does. They take a lot of pride in making fast-loading pages that render quickly and respond instantly. That's not compatible with writing giant, bloated, inefficient code.

[vezycash]

>They take a lot of pride in making fast-loading pages that render quickly and respond instantly.

Maybe in your company. My experience browsing modern front-end SPA design however begs to differ. They pride themselves in loading megabytes of uncompressed images, layers of invisible background images, frameworks to load frameworks, auto-download/auto-playing 4k videos...

[seattle_spring]

No one prides themselves on any of those things.

[chris_wot]

And yet they still do it.

[choochootrain]

i agree with you but you have to keep in mind that pages which load fast on a fiber connection and render and respond quickly on the latest macbook don't guarantee the same for the average user.

giving devs 4 year old laptops would help but when shiny startup is offering new macbooks how can you compete?

[pbhjpbhj]

Giving devs 4yo laptops when they only need then for testing seems, erm, strange, limiting.

Just have them test under processing and bandwidth limits?